exasperated - Story 47064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taste of coffee turned bitter in David’s mouth. He’d been anticipating this response, bracing himself for the inevitable. Still, seeing the word "regret" in the email stung. He pushed the mug away from him, the ceramic clinking against the table. He felt his chest tighten, his breath coming in shallow gasps. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture more frantic than usual. He felt the familiar ache in his temples, a headache brewing behind his eyes.

Emotion: exasperated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.99 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion exasperated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 exasperated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the exasperated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the exasperated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.435
`l`	0.378
`P`	0.331
`que`	0.320
`la`	0.269

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.433
`gradually`	-0.254
`soon`	-0.248
`unfolding`	-0.216
`joyful`	-0.216